CNN Partners With … Vice Magazine?

If you’ve followed the progression of Vice magazine from an irreverent, Montreal-based skateboard-and-drug-fueled rag to a Brooklyn, New York-based multiplatform media brand — albeit still skateboard-and-drug-fueled — this news would be less surprising.

Still, I’ll admit I took a double take when I saw the logo for VBS.TV — Vice’s video unit – sprawled across CNN.com on Wednesday.

CNN explains:Editor’s Note: The staff at CNN.com has recently been intrigued by the journalism of VICE, an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn, New York. VBS.TV is Vice’s broadband television network. The reports, which are produced solely by VICE, reflect a very transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process. We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers.